'Berylune Measuring'
Two blog posts in one year, who even are we? I wrote this to send to our email subscribers (click here if you'd like to join our list!), mostly our emails are short and sweet but this one needed a little more explanation!
Berylune Measuring... it's a thing!
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OK, so the term 'Berylune Measuring' has been kicking around for a while here; it stems back to the old shop, where we carefully measured bits of wood and other such things, only to find we had it completely wrong. The item in question somehow fit anyway or worked better than planned, which was quite baffling. For a time, we were at a loss as to what the problem might be; then it transpired that a retractable tape measure we had (and used to sell), was not even vaguely to scale. The numbers were a lie. But no, chucking it away and only using the correct tool for the job did not help us. I'm going to be honest and remove Zoë from this collective Berylune talk, because it's usually Amy & I that have the problem. Which brings me to our most recent example; a couple of weeks ago, Amy & I (Emily here), found ourselves in a field with a large piece of furniture that we simply could not make fit in our vehicle. We thought perhaps we were being a pair of lifting weaklings (we are not), and having another pair of hands would assist us in getting the correct angle. So we called some friends who were at the same market to come and help (thanks Caryn & Ken!). Alas, the lifting was not the problem and it simply would not fit, despite it looking like it should. Cut to four grown adults with nearly no tools, removing decorative trim with a tyre iron. Followed by Amy & I travelling home with our seats further forwards than was entirely comfortable. You would think we hadn't measured it, but we had! |
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Upon returning said shelving unit to the shop, I inspected the area in question and realised there is some manner of ceiling joist exactly where we wanted it to go; the height measurement I had taken for that room was for a piece to go in a different spot (You don't need to know, it makes sense to me, the sooner you learn to chalk these things up to Berylune Measuring the better). We measured the gap and found that, if Cecily hammered the trim back on so that it was flush with the top rather than standing proud of it, we would have 1cm to spare. Phew. Crisis averted. You'd think. Things are rarely that simple, and it turns out either the ceiling is bowed or the front of our countertop is higher than the back, but it would not clear the front of the cabinet to slide back into place. But that's ok. We placed it to the right of the ceiling joist (I say 'we', Dan and Amy were doing all the lifting and shimmying), and it successfully slid into place from the side.
Thank you if you've read this far, this was a lengthy one! |